In Willows we have a lovely opportunity for you and your child to sit back, relax and have a lovely hot chocolate each whilst enjoying a book or two at bedtime. Each week we will choose someone that has shown perseverance, hard work and has been an asset to Read more
Year 5 read reviews on various novels and then had a vote to determine which would be our class novel. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the winner and we have enjoyed reading the first two chapters. We discussed how we don’t think Harry is being treated fairly at Read more
At the end of each day, Year 4 love listening to a good story. At the moment, we are listening to ‘The witches’ by Roald Dahl. We find the descriptions of the witches very funny and love it when Mrs Downing changes the character names to names of children in Read more
Today in Bluebells we have been doing our first reading session. We have all had our own book and we have discussed how to take care of books. We have learnt how to hold a book, turn one page at a time and discuss the pictures and characters in the Read more
What a fantastic first full week we had in Year 3 Birch. Miss Lomax is really pleased with how well the class has settled in and how hard they are working. During this week, as part of our spelling and grammar lesson, we had lots of fun learning Kung Fu Read more
In Year 6, we have been looking at The Writing Revolution strategies to help improve our writing. We have looked at using 4-sentence paragraphs to help write short explanations, include a variety of sentences and interesting introductions for texts. We used them to write propaganda messages and also introduce Read more
Year 6 have been looking at some of the messages sent during WW2, in particular propaganda messages from Axis and Allied leaders. We looked at the messages behind each and decided if they were a truthful message and if they would mislead the public about the war. We used Read more
We have had lots of fun this week, getting to know the lovely children of Willows. They have wonderful manners and are very well behaved! We have already learnt a lot about the children of Willows and we can’t wait for the year ahead. We have been counting amounts Read more
To link in with our metals topic, we have been writing explanation texts for iRobots. We began by watching an award winning short film about a robot dog and discussed things such as its movements, how we understood its emotions and its relationship with its owner. We then wrote an Read more
